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Bloggin’ 2010

By stryder on Feb 21, 2010 in Ground Activities | 0 Comments

Hi BuddyZ!

I am humbled and full of gratitude for all your constructive feedback and comments…!

Bart Price

I’ll definitely voice out more of my personal concerns and opinions in the upcoming blogs.

UGG Boots

Hope your thesis is as good as my blog.. NOT! Ehehehehe…. Do send us a copy of your thesis (would like to know more of what exactly that you’re writing about, that my article made a good use for)

Bo Alexander

It’s just a piece of my mind.. glad you agreed with it (even if it’s only this time!).. Even so, please do provide your thoughts on things that may not be agreeable.. (that goes to all… we can start a forum on it… over facebook though..)

No Fax Payday Loan

Can’t agree with you more… and yes, I’m a cat… do come back.. appreciate your views… miaaaww..

And to all… again a thousand apologies for missing out all this months..been travelling around to gather further facts and information..

Question of the Year:

How would you like to see the upcoming blogs?

Short and informative or Long and adventurous?

Do send your comments..

Cheers BuddyZ!

Skool Holidays Adventure 06/07 June 09 (2)

By stryder on Sep 13, 2009 in Ground Activities | 0 Comments

Skool Hols Adventure (Part 2)

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7am….. cold mist passing our treehouse, the sun shyly emerges and the ray touches the faces of those young ones gently. The birds chirping their morning song and then…

“WAKE UP!!! Get ready for breakfast and the rapid, son!”

in 2 minutes these kids jolted and was ready as if they were up the whole time! (obviously not showered)… Simple filling breakfast of fried noodle, fried rice and of course, what gets you going the whole day? Milo! Sweet Chocolatey Milo…. and we have a kettle full of it just for ourselves. Yeay!!

Spent the next 1 and a half hour uploading and going through the previous pics with the guys, letting them have a view of what they have put themselves into… Obviously skipping the details of the intentional capsizing and how hypothermially cold the water would be (eheh… made that up!)… Then our master rafters (guides) Jay and Azman, with of course the ever so sweet Connie, called us to get into the transporter that took us to the starting point of our WHITE WATER RAFTING ADVENTURE!!

If you’ve read the first blog, you’ll know exactly how I had described the whole rafting experience, starting with the briefing and the White Water Swim! Well, aren’t these guys grateful that I’ve given them a free lesson yesterday.

They were not expecting the water to be far much more rougher than the ones they went through yesterday, but everyone passed with flying colours to get to the shore!

After another quick session of safety procedures, we started our journey… suddenly they were quiet and frankly speaking, they might just be a tad bit scared if not worried, showing from their faces… well, I call it adrenaline build up.

A “paddle pop” (slamming our paddles flat on to the water which produced a popping sound) and a shout of “Hoo argghhh!!” (just like the army doe sin the movies…ehheheh) awakens the adventure in everyone! Believe me when I say that they were so enthusiastic and serious about paddling the rapids… !

Here’s where its a bit different.. I was in their raft and not rafting at all… well, what do you expect? who would’ve taken those vids and pics if I was holding my paddles? eheheheheheh… even though ragging was not my style, but it does feel good at times!

By the time they reached the ‘Double Decker’ drop, I was far ahead of them, leaning on a stone looking down to where they’ll be drained to the glory, awaiting to snap a shot of their doom!

Were they not surprised and gawked during their drop! It was amazing from where I was, watching Zamaril literally bumped out of his seat and was in front with the other 2 ladies..!! They could’ve died laughing right after that… enjoying every second of the whole commotion… Our guide Mr Azman and Mr Jay got their well earned respect from these bunch for taking great care of them… we salute you!

Our 20 minutes stop halfway down was made to fantastic use! Where we used to jump from a tree from the previous trip… these guys doubled the amount of times! Of course, doubled the amount of apples consumed! Talk about carb burning…

Once we’re done with the rafting… Lunch was greatly appreciated.. These were the times of peace. Everyone was concentrating hard indulging the savoury dishes laid upon them. The only sounds heard were their mouth munching and the clicking of the cameras..

Soon after, we’re back on our transport, now to the great Gua Kandu. Where history comes to life!

This is a place, as I mentioned earlier, where these kids gets to see from a text book (if any) and hear from their teacher’s of the dark times of Malaysia trying to reach independence and freedom. Here is where they can appreciate the things they’ve learnt by experiencing themselves.

Stalactites and Stalagmites formations, findings of seashells millions of years ago, the communist hideouts and cave paintings breaths a fresh ideology to the developing minds. The climbs and descends tested their agility and stamina (not to mention facing fears of heights and darkness)… The knowledge and experience gathered, made them more Malaysian and standout among the crowd of people their age.

Upon reaching the flying fox, I was amazed myself looking at them all so ready and lively. As if they were about to jump off the ledge and swing themselves to the lower grounds…. So full of energy! But obedient nonetheless… listening to every rules and following it by the book…

Down we went via the flying fox, up again into the cave and out to the last opening to descend, making way to our transport.

We took our time packing, chilling and taking long showers. Not wanting to leave this wonderful place. But it’s time to head back to the city where the real life awaits..

I’ve sworn to myself that I’ll be taking them for more exhilarating adventures, more in depth experiences with me…. once they reach their tender age of 18. Until then……..

Skool Holidays Adventure 06/07 June 09

By stryder on Sep 13, 2009 in Water Activities | 3 Comments

Hi All,

Thousand apologies for gone missing in the last few months… Been hectic and not having set my eyes on a computer since…. until now.

Sometimes it’s nice to have those moments relived, when a plain piece of white paper and a ball pen were used as a mode of communication/ self expression/ blog writing…etc.

It does make you feel good… well, at least I did.

Specially when having it written while sitting on a tree..

Feeling the soft brush of the late afternoon breeze,

listening to the slow stroke of the pen grazing on the crispy white paper, leaving its ink of memories….

Watching the sun drops so gently over the horizon while sipping off a thermosful of joe’s…

The tree, resting on white powdery sands of Perhentian Island, off the east coast of Terengganu, Malaysia,

looking over the glistening blue ocean of the South China Sea, added with the sound of the slow slides of waves over pebbly beach and the rustles of the leaves grasping the west winds…

makes the whole write up, a pristine experience of its own.

I didn’t literally write a love letter to my partner to have these stories published on the blog… just merely jotting down the whole adventure

remembered (not something that you can forget instantaneously, you know) through out these time and now, here I am back in the good ol’ office, retyping word by word,

the adventures of those brave young buddyz of ours…

Skool Hols Adventure (Part 1)

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This time around, we started our journey quite late in the morning… 2 cars left the township of Subang Jaya, Selangor, West Malaysia ( where i lived and where all the buddyz are as well) at about 10ish am…

Of course, beforehand, the pickups were required, the parents signature’s on the contract… and then, these young braves were released into the good hands of theStryderBuddyz.

I was not joking about them being young, they were 14 - 22 years of age! Yup yup, underage kids(half of them) searching for glory of their youths and fun of adventure!

Meet Zamaril (16), Zamaera (14) and Li Hui (14) in one car…(the young ones) On the other car, Fareeda (20) and Isaiah Kee( 22)… of course the cars were driven by myself (now known as BuddyBoe) and my good friend, BuddyZee. (I’m calling him that whether he likes it or not).

We left late due to a spontaneous change in the itinerary. We are not going to do anything today but just take our time travelling. Our adventure on the raft and the cave pending till tomorrow… but the journey is an adventure yet still.

Travelling… not only for fun, obviously you know it’s informative! imagine the things you never knew in your own country, exist, and there you were, querying yourself, are all these even real?

Such is the case with these young minds… they were awed and excited to find out about something, see with their own eyes, the magnificent enchantment nature and manmade wonders of Malaysia has to provide.

This is exactly what, not only the government continuously reiterating, but we as a person (parents, teachers, brothers, sisters, frens) should be exposing our kids to… First Hand Experience.

Yes, you may say that they can learn well (or probably better) with their internet access and high end technology in the comfort and safety of their own home, but this is where they forgot to ask,

“where/how was all these information being gathered?”

If not for all you adrenaline, adventure junkies who had the idea to write about it, take a pic and show it, they wouldn’t know… I thank you all from the bottom of my heart for such bravery to climb the highest mountain, row in to the deepest valley, cramping bodies to the smallest of holes, swim into the vastness of the ocean, even crapping or pissing yourself, just to get those pics, those moments, that we all can share….

Believe me, I’m not against technology, I am so grateful for it.. without it, we won’t be advancing to where we are now… (and you won’t probably read all this)

yet, with all the PSP’s, Playstations, XBOX and whatever not, they’re great entertainment modules but where is the message of self respect, live healthy, go green, save the ocean, etc….? Kapish… Wala’ na.. Yilek… Mei Yow… Ma’Fi… N’a Pas… Don’t have.. Takde…

Parent/ children, teacher/student communications are going to be enhanced and they’ll be more bonded when they spend more time and doing things together.

Kids are not easy to show their appreciation, but there will be those days when they will reconcile their minds and see what they have accomplished…

and most importantly, who.. they have accomplish it with…….

We again head on the same direction as the previous journey we had, through the suburbs and small townships, passing along areas of which we had a good laugh and cheap thrills.

Do you know that there is such a place called Kampung Rasa ( Taste Village)and just a couple of kilometres more, there’s another place called Kampung Rasa Tambahan (Additional Taste Village)?

Not to mention Kampung Menyorok (Hiding Village… or better yet pronounced as Hidden Village)? Believe me, this place is yet to be found (by myself)….

All these places are located almost at the very end of nothern state of Selangor(on the way to Tanjung Malim, Perak).

A lot more places we passed, those of which these young buddyz of ours learnt only in their History lessons at school. Now, they see it for themselves.

By the time we reached our exit point at Gua Tempurung, lunch was craved by the lot. Had a good meal before heading into our most favourite place, where the tree houses were, Earth Camp!

Immediately we grab our keys, dump our bags and take a moment to chill… Changed our clothes and jump into the river! I lead these kids through a small adventure… walking against the current, until we reached a more subtle part, then show them how the white water swim was done… No life jackets, just good swimmers and experienced lifesavers; and these kids were really adventurous!

Kinda scary when you’ve been put so much of trust and expectation on you… But again, I wouldn’t worry a bit.

Water was just knee deep… ehheheheheeh…..

Time flies by when we have fun… Just can’t believe it’s already dusk.. and I’m yet to start a fire for our Barbeque Dinner! Yikes!

As everyone takes their bath and jolly good time taking pics and poses, the grill was up, the fire hot, and the meats are ready to be charred… Helping themselves to a plate of rice and vege provided by our most kind Nomad Adventure; they came running back to the campfire with dripping saliva, waiting to pounce onto the sweet smelling barbequed lamb, fish, prawns, squids and chickens; tendered and heavily marinated with BBQ marinating sauce, onions, garlic, black and white pepper, with dashes of rosemary and mint to enhance the taste and smell nontheless.

Everyone, and I mean everyone was literally high, after a full hour of stuffing themselves. Best part of the nite, of course, was star gazing!

This time around, using a big canvas to have all of us fit in, we just laid back and enjoyed viewing the gazillion stars shining brightly, decorating the big black bluish sky, like diamond buttons on JLo’s dark blue jeans…

Swaying to the music from their MP3’s (obviously not mine!), we were there for hours till late. I’m not surprised that they continued chatting and giggling throughout the night on their tree houses.

After all, they’re kids………

Heads up for part 2…….

Gua Kandu & Earth Camp

By stryder on Jun 16, 2009 in Ground Activities | 3 Comments

Lunch was marvellous!

Simple but fulfilling. We had plain rice with chicken curry, fried vege in oyster sauce, omelette, soy sauce and the infamous “Sirap Ais”! ( had to be listed in Malay as thats where the jizz is at! )

Given a full hour of rest and meal (gobbling the foods for 45 minute that is!) we then head on to the back of our pickup truck for our next adventure…

GUA KANDU SPELUNKING!!

On the way to the specified area, we reroute to the Nomad Climbing School. There we had a view of a place, where we knew instantly is great for a team building

outing/expedition/escapade (whatever they call it these days!). You name it; High Ropes Course (one of the highest in Malaysia), Leap of Faith (gotta try this one!) and more…

After 15minutes spent, we continued driving to where the cave was. Parked by road shoulder, wore our helmets, crossed the road and started to walk through a path.

Then there it was, the mouth of Gua Kandu wide open, ready to swallow even an elephant.

We all stopped for a 10 minutes briefing on safety procedures, nature preservation of the stalactites and stalagmites, what can we expect to see in the cave and

what would have been a surprise or lucky should you able to see one (we’re talking cave crawlers i.e cave snakes, spiders, centipedes, etc…)

Torch light was lit. (only by our guides… i had to use my phone as a source of light.. talk about coming prepared!) We start to walk into the darkness…….

Just a brief info for everyone, Gua Kandu was once an underwater cavern within the ocean millions of years ago. Traces of sea shells can be found should you shine your torch downwards (or upwards).

It is also happen to be a hideout for Communist during the late era of the Japanese occupation (1955 - 1957). Following the story of the people from a nearby Kampung Jahang (Jahang Village),

here is also where the legendary Mao Zedong believed to be hiding. Also, due to the high level of minerals, tin mining was once a major activity! It practically transformed the geological appearance

of the cave nontheless.

After about 10 minutes of walking through, we saw a few cave paintings, mostly in chinese characters, also a painting of a star (commemorating the rise of Communism). A lot more of character paintings found..

(including those from vandalists who does not know how to appreciate historical values and nature…unfortunately). During the whole journey, our guides pointed their torches at some really dark spots,

and we were amazed with what seemed to be crystalites, sparkling on the walls. I strongly believed somewhere within those limestone walls are beautiful diamonds awaiting to be dug out but I also believed that

some things are meant to be left untouched.

After a continuation of another 20 minutes, we reached to the biggest and probably the darkest area of the cave. The guides then told us to switch off all forms of light, be quiet, take a deep breath and hold it for a moment.

That my friend, was one of the most eerily calming 15 seconds of my life! Total Black Hole darkness, can’t see your hands in front of your face, your hearing abilities enhanced, only to hear the trinkling sounds

of limestone waters dripping. Hearts racing, imagination runs wild and yet even so, the feeling of pure tranquility was noticed; apart from the other feelings of sadness and scared. The thought of who would ever be able to

survive such darkness? To imagine being left alone, not knowing where you might end up in this mazed underworld.. no food, no water, no direction. . In that 15 seconds, I realized how lucky we are today to have all

the technologies in hand…. especially that of which we took for granted.. The gift of Light.

Using alot of natural resources to generate energy to flicker up a bulb, we forgot that those natural resources are running out and if we don’t do our part in energy conservation, we might end up being in the darkness again.

Our guide were pretty informative. telling us about how stalactites and stalagmites were formed and what would happen should we touch one which is in the making. They also showed us rock formations that

looked like faces and figures of lions and tigers and woman.. One of it looked like a tombstone and on which definitely grabbed my interest was one that looked like a man with his dog at the back howling.

It doesn’t looked as much as told but certainly rdefined the whole idea when light was shoned and how the shadows perceived. Interesting!

By then, we have reached our crossing point…. via Flying Fox! A moment where everyone was looking forward to, I might say…

as the guides preparing the safety lines, we were also told to harness up, to check and have our beltings secured tightly. Well, you wouldn’t want to fall off a 20 metres drop now, would you?

Soon after, one by one of us were clipped to the lines. There and then we were advised which lines to hold and which are not to.

In a different case of an excited Lydia, she was told to slowly walk backwards, sit on the harness…. and our guide Zizi asked,

“Are you ready?”

Just as Lydia took her breath to answer, Whoosh!!! Off she went without a seconds thought….

Apparently, not the case with our ‘Iron Lady’.. She was practically shivering looking downwards form the ledge! Suffering vertigo, seems that the only way to overcome it, is to face it…

One thing about being in a group (team), is that you’ll have your peers to look out for you and scream their lungs out to give you that shot of courage.. After what seemed to be around 7 minutes of trying to overcome that fear,

she finally did it! Hooray! Everyone was congratulating and that feeling of accomplishment was felt.

We took off our harnesses and tracked back into the cave for approximately 15 minutes, going down a tie line and up a dusty area until we see the next opening, where we were to trek down vertically a 100 m of approximately

60 - 70 degrees incline. That was fun!

Heading back to the camp, we had a quick stopover at a bridge nearby. Nothing better to do than to jump off the bridge and into the river! We’re kids again (literally!)…

One by one of us jumped off the 4 metres high bridge, with nothing but a roller coaster terror face and screams of joy!

A most simple tea break was served.. Banana Tempura, Sweet Potato Tempura ( Either I just spoiled your imagination or otherwise.. It’s “Pisang Goreng” and “Keledek Goreng”), Hot Milo or coffe or tea and not to forget

the most famous Cream Crackers (always a blessing when you’re blinkin’ hungry!!).. We continued then with a dip in the river before heading to the showers…

A brilliant idea popped up while everyone was digging in the scrumptious dinner… “Why not we go to Cameron Highlands and get some Chocolate Strawberries after this?!!”… everyone looked and leaving the crickets to answer.

Whose idea was it? Nevermind…

It’s after dinner, clouds were clear, while in Koh Samui they’re having a Black Moon Party, we (Me, Aini and Fiza) here in Earth Camp was on a canvas bed gawking at the zillions of stars across the horizon.. You’ll never,

and I mean NEVER, be able to see so many stars in KL!

Zali and Lydia was on the tree house uploading the pictures taken throughout the day.. Sandrine already head to the bunk sleeping peacefully (I’m sure she’s smiled while sleeping).. The night was peaceful, we didn’t

speak much, but our eyes told each other how great an adventure we’ve had that day……..

I did mentioned we slept on tree houses, didn’t I? Well, if I missed, yeaa… we slept on tree houses. Cute and cozy, leaving the night breeze to gently whispering us to sleep through the night…

The next day, was a day where some of us woke up early to catch breakfast, when most of us just continued dozing off till almost midday.. Stress free, rejuvenated and happy… Glad that we did this program.

I Thank all again for your participation and making STRYDER BuddyZ first White Water/Spelunking Adventure a success!!

Cheers!!

Syed Zahidi Al Edros (Boe)

016.286.5931

Stryder White Water Rafting @ Gopeng Perak

By stryder on May 18, 2009 in Water Activities | 6 Comments

WHITE WATER RAFTING ADVENTURE 250409

We started off that morning at 6.00 am of 25 April 2009 without a minute to spare. Two cars left Bursa Saham Malaysia with 6 not-in-the-best-of-mood-sleepy-like hell people, on the quest for adventure.

We chose to drive along the old road exiting Jalan Ipoh and head on towards Gopeng passing by the towns of Kuala Kubu Bharu, Tanjung Malim, Telok Intan, Sungkai and more. The scenic views kept SOME of us awake (the drivers) and in appreciation of the God given beauty that we took for granted all this while.

Along the journey we came across a train of speeding cars which was following a noisy beaconed lead car. It happened to be the Jelajah Malaysia 2009 administrative group heading their way to the starting point of the race. Without second thoughts, we followed their speed and what a smooth drive it was! With the other civilian cars needing to make way for us as well!!

We soon reached our breakfast point at Gua Tempurung with about half an hour to spare. Well, it beats the point of breakfast stop when not a single piece of grain went into our stomachs! We were then called and was been advised to head on to the meeting point at Earth Camp, where we joined our guides and facilitators before heading on to the riverside.Parked our cars and was then provided the keys to our little tree houses for us to dump our luggage, soon after we jumped in a 4 WD and head on to the starting point of our White Water Rafting Adventure.

After approximately 7 kilometres of great, laugh filled bumpy ride, we have reached the riverside of the infamous Sungai Kampar (Kampar River). The sound of running rapid crashing the boulders and the smell of freshwater, wakes us up almost immediately.We were then all briefed on the safety procedures and geared up to the nines. After which we were reminded by one of our guides,

“wear your helmets properly, you don’t wanna look uncool in front of the camera now, would you?”

We all picked up our rafts right after, dump it in the water and one by one of us were then required to do the White Water Swim.

The cold water jolted us as soon it touches our skin and we are to lie down on our backs while the guide is grasping on our life jackets! That’s when our hearts start pumping, adrenaline rushing, heads calculating, eyes coordinating to where we are suppose to swim our way to!

Just when you thought you’re ready, the guide lets you go…. and you’re in the hands of Mother Nature. Flowed following the wild river and thrashed by the White Water before you hear somebody yelled,

“swim to the shore! Swim to the shore! Open your eyes, smile and swim to the shore!”

When all of us are safe by the shore, we all immediately realised, this… is just the beginning……

We got into our rafts, hands clutching tight to our paddles, bum cheeks placed evenly, life jacket secured and helmets worn in the coolest way possible….. we start to raft slowly.

Within minutes of paddling, the guides suddenly announced “Guys, your first rapid..”

Then we hear, “Hold On!!” yelled the guides, we hold our paddles down as we were taught, grasp hold of the safety line circling the raft and down we go into the rapid.

Water flows in our rafts, we were practically banging each other and then up we go again, clearing the rapid….

With the smiles and laughs and the glittering eyes of everyone in the raft after a mere moment of 5 seconds, we now knew what it’s like to be White Water Rafting!!

Head up straight, awaiting us is another rapid, bigger than the first, more exhilarating and we passed through with great accomplishment in ourselves.

As we were about to hit the third rapid, our guide yelled “Boom boom! Boom boom!”, a code as to indicate that we were to sit in the raft and not on the ledge. Again down we go, now into a steeper drop. Water filling up fast in the raft, body was arched to the back and then “Thud!”

After clearing the rapid, we then turned and realised that Rafiza, who was seating behind me, had jammed her face right on to my helmet during the drop. A deep cut on the lips and a bruised left cheek, had left her disoriented for a good 20 seconds.

But with the courage and the will to continue, she just buck up and was there sitting on the ledge, ready to raft again! She was then dubbed the title “Iron Lady” of our group.

Soon after, we reached to a point where we stopped for a good 20 minutes rest. Down from the raft and into the river we went. Swimming against the flowing river, splashing water to the others, climbing trees and jumping back into the river, somersaulting and landing on our backs, on our belly and on our face; It hurts, but nothing beats the great time everybody is having. There we were reminded of our good old youth years… on that moment, we were kids again.

We continued our journey after a refreshing course of fun; Paddling gently and swiftly following the orders of our captain.

We were raft by raft when I noticed that the guides were murmuring something between them and then smiled… I was so sure something cheeky was up their sleeves.

We were heading towards the last drop when our guide shouted “fast paddle! Fast paddle!” followed by “Hold on!” and then as we were going down he yelled “To the left! To the left!” and to the left we went and without warning “Debushhh!!”

Our raft capsized INTENTIONALLY by the infamous Arman, dubbed CK (Capsize King). Panicked for a moment there but we maintained our smiles and laughs were heard from the other raft, happy that we went down as well as they did. Apparently, the whole journey would not be complete without at least having to try BEING capsized.

From that point forward, we had a sun bathing session on the raft itself. Nobody was having their paddle at hand, just letting the river takes us downstream to our finishing point (the guides were in control of the raft of course!)

Upon reaching the finishing point, with all our breaths taken and our hands cramped from paddling the last two hours, just when we thought it was over, the guide simply looked at us and said “who do you think will be carrying this raft on land?” Not a simple task at all!! But of course we did it…

The best of the best part among all after the left and the rights, the hold on and the boom booms was the food awaiting to be savoured.

That my friend, was one heckuva adventure I tell ya!

Thanks to all the participants :

Sandrine Annick Boiserre

Rafiza Mohamed Ekbal (Iron Lady)

Lydia Tan

Aini Mastura

Zee

Boe

And to our fantastic guides :

Arman CK (Capsize King)

Hafizi

Not to mentioned our other facilitators :

Connie (Momma)

Apek

Wan

Andy

And to those who were there but not mentioned here, you know who you are and I THANK YOU for all.

Syed Zahidi Syed Alwee (Boe)

016.286.5931

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But wait! Our adventure is far from over!! Follow up on the upcoming updates of Gua Kandu Adventure 250409……. TO BE CONTINUED….

The Stryder Paintball

By stryder on May 9, 2009 in Ground Activities | 4 Comments

The Stryder Paintball Event was organized on 9th May 2009 at 12 o’clock. When Buddhists were busy meditating on Wesak Day, these 16 brave people - Zali, Bajee, Haimi, Nen, Weed, Hakim, Zakwan, Zaki, Ash, Arisa, Syaq, SK, Shaf, Emir, Amir and Omar – were shooting pellets at each other at the war zone of Xtreme Park Seksyen 13 Shah Alam.

Before the game started, the participants went through some induction on the game and on getting to know each other. They were briefed on Stryder as the ultimate organizer of sport, adventure and recreation and were given introduction and explanation on the game to get the real experience on paintball.

Unlike any other package offered in the market, it was affordable and includes lunch, drinks and the complete gears for the 3 hours game. Basically all the fun people need to do was just bring themselves and shoot. The gears include the mask, body protector, marker (air-gun), loader, canister and 100 pellets for the starter pack. They also get additional 4000 pellets divided between 2 teams throughout the entire game.

There was a small casualty on the field when there was collision between 2 shooters, Zali and Zakwan, due to some miscommunication of command from the leader. Guess they were too excited to get the flag. But all is well as complete aid was provided at the site for any fatalities. Paintball is tough, but it is actually safe as proper protection is ensured to cover the vital parts of the body and bunkers are scattered throughout the field for shields. Marshals are also stationed at the field to supervise the novice snipers. We also want to applaud the only GI Jane in the group, Miss Arisa for battling with the guys, and not giving up after being shot on the head. That must hurt.

The game ended at 3.15 pm with a hearty lunch and a good feeling of camaraderie. The result concluded with 6-3, so congratulations to Team B for winning! So anybody who’s interested to join the adrenaline and fun, just give this guy a call at 012-6966589. It’s Zali and he’s single and available.